tag:cincinnatilibrary.org,2007:NewArrivals:dvd_feature_foreignDVDs—Foreign Feature Films2016-12-02T03:16:39-05:00The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Countyhttp://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/feeds/newarrivals.png3228312Dukhtar = Daughter2016-12-01T00:00:00-05:00

New York, NY : Kino Lorber

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Samiya Mumtaz, Saleha Aref, Mohib Mirza.

Title from disc label.

On title screen the word Dukhtar dissolves into the word Daughter.

Allah Rakhi kidnaps her ten-year-old daughter Zainab to save her from a child marriage to a tribal leader. Their escape is a damning loss of honor for the two families, and a deadly hunt begins for them. Desperate for help, Allah Rakhi strikes an unlikely deal with a cynical ex-Mujahid truck driver to take them to Lahore. What follows is an epic journey through the sweeping landscape of Pakistan where the search for freedom and love comes with a price.

A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.

3229056Phantom boy2016-11-30T00:00:00-05:00

Universal City, CA : Universal, [2016]

1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Edouard Baer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Audrey Tautou.

Widescreen (1.85:1)

Bonus features: Interview with Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli; The making of Phantom boy; One heck of a plan-an animated short from the directors of Phantom boy; and more!

Leo is a phantom boy due to a mysterious illness. It enables him to leave his body and explore the city as a ghost. In the hospital one day, he befriends Alex, a NYC cop. Alex had gotten injured while attempting to capture a gangster who has caused chaos in the metropolis. Now this extraordinary duo work together to foil the plot of the villianous gangster and save New York from destruction.

"Based in the heart of Lahore, the story takes place in a house full of daughters, teeming with the vibrancy of life but also restricted. It is the story of a girl who challenges the mind set that closes all doors of light on women of the house and considers them nothing more than a machine that produces children"--Container.

"One of the most personal film by Guillermo del Toro, ... is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro expertly combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish melange that, like his later Pan's Labyrinth, reminds us the scariest monsters are often the human ones"--Container.

A dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather, a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth.

The story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s, Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.

3212435Udta Punjab [videorecording]2016-10-13T00:00:00-04:00

New Delhi : JSM Entertainment, 2016.

1 videodisc (149 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh.

A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en-masse resulting in a socio-economic decline.

3218947From afar = Desde allá2016-10-13T00:00:00-04:00

[Culver City, California] : Strand Releasing, [2016]

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jerico Montilla, Catherina Cardozo.

Title from disc label.

Based on a story by Guillermo Arriaga, Lorenzo Vigas

"Wealthy, middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. He doesn't want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. Armando's first encounter with street thug Elder is violent, but this doesn't discourage the lonely man's fascination with the tough handsome teenager. Financial interest keeps Elder visiting him regularly and an unexpected intimacy emerges. However, Armando's haunted past looms large, and Elder commits the ultimate act of affection on Armando's behalf"--Container.

Title and statement of responsibility from English subtitles on title screens.

A rash of brutal murders sweeps a quiet rural village where a mysterious stranger just appeared. When the investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he consults a shaman for answers, unknowingly escalating the situation into something far more dangerous.

Simon Carrerra has just been released from prison and is now on parole. His friend Albert persuades him back to his old ways with the idea of a big-time heist of a celebrated diamond in Antwerp; the "Florentine." The jewel's owner, Marie Neuville, suddenly passes away and her daughter, Julia, is left in charge of the sale. Simon encounters Julia while posing as a friend of Julia's mother. Slowly but surely, the two become closer. He manages to use their relationship to get to the diamond and the heist is a success. However, another member of the heist has a different motive and Simon has to decide if he wants to continue with the crime or help Julia recover the diamond.

"In The Measure of a Man, Vincent Lindon ... gives his finest performance to date as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, a workship critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers; all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self respect. In his award-winning persormance, Vincent Lindon is quietly heartbreaking, revealing the soul of the unemployed"--Container.

3218968Josh : (against the grain)2016-10-11T00:00:00-04:00

[New York, N.Y.] : Virgil Films, [2014]

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Khalid Malik, Aamina Sheikh, Adnan Shah Tipu.

Title from disc label.

DVD release of the 2013 motion picture.

Fatima, a committed schoolteacher living the cosmopolitan high life in Karachi, has her life shattered when her nanny, Nusrat inexplicably disappears. Though her friends and family beg her not to disturb the status quo and confront the powerful feudals in Nusrat's village, Fatima travels there to investigate.

3212436Waiting [videorecording]2016-10-06T00:00:00-04:00

Mumbai : Reliance Big Entertainment, 2016.

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Naseeruddin Shah, Kalki Koechlin, Arjun Mathur, Rajat Kapoor.

Tara is a fiercely independent woman whose life turns upside down after her husband Rajat meets with an accident. At the hospital, she meets Shiv, an elderly man whose wife of 40 years has been in the coma for eight months. The two strike an unlikely friendship that helps them cope with their grief.

3199293A touch of zen / International Film Production ; presented by Sha Yung-Fong ; executive producer, Yang Hsi-Ching ; written and directed by King Hu.2016-10-04T00:00:00-04:00

[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]

1 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Xu Feng, Shi Jun, Bai Ying, Tian Peng.

Restored by the Taiwan Film Institute in 2014 as part of the "Taiwan Film Classics Digital Restoration and Value-Adding Project."

Adapted from Pu Song-ling's Strange stories from a Chinese studio.

A fugitive noblewoman seeks refuge in a remote, and allegedly haunted, village. The sanctuary she finds with a shy scholar and two aides in disguise is shattered when a nefarious swordsman uncovers her identity, pitting the four against legions of blade-wielding opponents.

This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection, and she soon gives up everything for her beloved's creative glory.

3212509The Milky Way = La voie lactée2016-10-03T00:00:00-04:00

[United States] : Distributed by Cheezy Flicks Entertainment, [2016]

1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob.

Title from disc label.

Originally released as motion picture in 1969.

Two French drifter pilgrims leave Paris to visit the tomb of Spanish Saint John de Compostello. Their motives are not purely religious as one man wishes to defy God and the other to find a good place to beg. Along the way, the men meet God, Jesus, Mary, Satan and more.

Six diverse best friends gather to watch the wildly popular UniverSong competition. Appalled by the Israeli entry, they decide to create their own and record it on a mobile phone. Unbeknownst to them, their performance is seen by the judges and selected as the entry for next year's competition.

Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited, Arnauld sings up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they had imagined.

3207556Aligarh2016-09-22T00:00:00-04:00

Mumbai : Eros International Media, 2016.

1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Ashish Vidyarthi.

Anamorphic widescreen presentation.

The plot revolves around Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras who taught Marathi at Aligarh Muslim University. He was sacked from his position of Reader and Chair of Modern Indian Languages, on charges of homosexuality. A sting operation was conducted by a TV channel which showed him in an embrace with a rickshaw puller, at his house inside the campus.

3212429Love Punjab [videorecording]2016-09-22T00:00:00-04:00

Jalandhar : Kumar Films ; Noida : Moserbaer, 2016.

1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Amrinder Gill, Sargun Mehta, Yograj Singh, Binnu Dhillon.

Parghat and Jessica are a couple who are going through separation for various reasons. They together have a son named Manveer who has his own set of problems in school where he faces racism and discrimination issues. Manveer goes into deep depression and on the recommendation of the doctor, his parents decide to take him to Punjab to show his roots, culture and ancestral village.

MSG 2 The Messenger is based on true events of Dera Sacha Sauda in years 2000-2001. Although the main story line is true, action & comedy is added for entertainment. Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan plays plays to be a warrior fighting against the wild & primitive lifestyle of tribal and succeeding in turning them into civilized human beings.